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• Title:
  Perceiving and Knowing as Activities
• Creator:
  Machamer, Peter;
  Springle, Alison
• Contributor:
  Kleszcz, Ryszard;
  Kaczmarek, Janusz;
  University of Pittsburgh;
  University of Pittsburgh, HPS & Philosophy;
  pkmach@pitt.edu;
  alisonspringle@gmail.com
• Description:
  According to the tradition of most empiricists, perception is the basis for all our knowledge (at least of the world). The tradition also assumes that perception by humans is a passive activity resulting in some static states pertaining perception and belief, which are then, in some versions, modified by the mind before being passed onto memory and knowledge. Following the work of J. J. Gibson, we argue that perceiving involves many activities and actions. This is true of both visual as well as olfactory-taste perception. The main moral of this paper is that perceiving and knowing are best thought of not as involving static states, but rather as ongoing temporal activities involving change. This presumably means giving up a frozen ontology of states and moving towards something like a dynamic ontology as a basis.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl ;
  © Copyright by Authors, Łódź 2016; © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2016
• Date:
  2017.09.01;
  2016
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf;
  image/jpeg
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Kaczmarek J., Kleszcz R. (eds), Philosophy as the Foundation of Knowledge, Action, Ethos, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016;
• Subject:
  activity;
  action;
  knowing;
  knowledge;
  perceiving;
  perception;
  dynamic ontology
• Identifier:
  Machamer P., Springle A., Perceiving and Knowing as Activities, [w:] Kaczmarek J., Kleszcz R. (eds), Philosophy as the Foundation of Knowledge, Action, Ethos, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016, s. [43]-58, doi: 10.18778/8088-538-7.06;
  978-83-8088-538-7;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/22477 ;
  978-83-8088-539-4;
  10.18778/8088-538-7.06
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text